Chapter 8 Vocabulary (APHG - Patterns of Language and Religion)

Match each of the following terms related to language.

• Language

• Languages within a language branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap

• Language Family

• A collection of languages within a family that share a common origin and separated from others in same family thousands of years ago

• Dialect

• A distinct system of communication that is the carrier of human thoughts and cultural identities.

• Language Branch

• A variation of a standard language specific to a general area, with differences in pronunciation, degree of rapidity in speech, word choice and spelling

• Language group

• A group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth

A religion that tries to appeal to all humans and is open to membership by everyone.

• Universalizing religion

• Ethnic religion

• Theistic religion

• Non-theism

A religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group often living in a particular place.

• Universalizing religion

• Ethnic religion

• Theistic religion

• Non-theism

Match the following related to religion.

• Sect

• A relatively small group that has separated from an established denomination

• Pilgrimage

• A person who is loyal to a belief, religion or organization.

• Denomination

• A separate church organization that unites a number of local congregations

• Religion

• A journey to a holy place for spiritual reasons

• Adherent

• A system of spiritual beliefs that helps form cultural perceptions, attitudes, beliefs and values.

Match the following world religions.

• Islam

• World's oldest monotheistic religion; ethnic religion that developed among the Hebrew people of SW Asia about 4,000 years ago

• Buddhism

• Universalizing religion based on teachings of Muhammad that originated in Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula in 7th century

• Christianity

• Ethnic religion that developed a few thousand years ago in South Asia and is closely tied to India

• Hinduism

• Oldest universalizing religion, developed in NE India between mid-6th and mid-4th century BC; based on teachings of Siddhartha Gautama

• Judaism

• Universalizing religion based on teachings of Jesus Christs that began in West Bank/Israel in 1st century and has spread to all inhabited continents

Focused on worldly rather than spiritual concerns

• secularized

• pilgrimate

• isolate

• universalizing religion

A language that is unrelated to any other known language

• Isolate

• Ethnic Language

• Secularized

• Dialect